Student Short Biography
Loice is a Landscape Architect, registered as a Corporate Member in the Architectural Association of Kenya, Landscape Architects
Chapter. She holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.
She currently works as a Landscape Architect at the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public
Works, State Department of Public Works in Nairobi.
Loice has also worked as a Teaching Assistant at Kirinyaga University where she taught Architecture and Construction
Management students. She has also worked as an Associate Landscape Architect at ArchGeo Landscape & Construction Ltd
where she has handled projects that range from residential, commercial, educational, hotel and rangeland landscapes.
Thesis / Project Title
THE INFLUENCE OF ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ON URBAN LAND USE: A CASE OF EASTERN BYPASS.
Thesis / Project Abstract
Road infrastructure development in Kenya has risen steadily over the past decade as the need for urban land-use changes becomes a development agenda for economic prosperity. As this growth and development occurs, urban management challenges emerge. The impact of urbanization due to the increase in the road infrastructure projects has placed more pressure on the existing land.
The study specifically (1) investigated the extent to which road infrastructure development affects land use/land cover along the
Eastern bypass;(2) established land use conflict driving forces that emerge from road infrastructure development along Eastern
bypass; and (3) recommended medium-term urban management framework that will guide land management actors in prevention
and management of land use conflicts caused by road infrastructure development projects.
The study was guided by the bid rent theory, industrial location theory and the Central place theory. It employed descriptive and
historical designs, while carrying out a time series analysis of the different time periods of the construction of the Eastern Bypass in
order to analyze the impact of the road on the different land uses.
The study gives recommendations on the strategies aimed towards achieving a Sustainable Urban Land Management Framework that incorporated both transport-oriented development plan and land use planning.
Research Supervisors
Prof. Jeremiah N. Ayonga
Dr. Margaret N. Macharia Kedogo